http://www.metallica.com/images/extras/DM_cover_600.jpg
― Bee OK, Friday, 18 July 2008 03:38 (fifteen years ago) link
vagina grave
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 18 July 2008 04:23 (fifteen years ago) link
how WEIRD AS FUCK it was that marianne faithful did a cameo appearance on a METALLICA record. you can't make this shit up!
I dunno, I mean Marianna Faithfull did an appearance on an Oxbow record too...she seems available for fucked up shit of all stripes.
Metallica not making Black Album-style pop metal is pretty useless these days.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 July 2008 04:24 (fifteen years ago) link
WOW that cover is vag city.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 July 2008 04:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000DR70.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
― Pillbox, Friday, 18 July 2008 04:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I just hope they deleted everything Torben didn't like.
― moley, Friday, 18 July 2008 05:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Metallica should take it one further and make the new album ONLY available on Guitar Hero....
if you fuck up a few notes here and there, it'll sound the way its supposed to
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Friday, 18 July 2008 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/images/jezebel/2008/07/hetfield072508.jpg
― latebloomer, Sunday, 3 August 2008 11:50 (fifteen years ago) link
looks like ulrich and hammett decided to really embrace their feminine side for this album
― latebloomer, Sunday, 3 August 2008 11:54 (fifteen years ago) link
! Cloven hooves! Maybe this will be alright after all.
― Øystein, Sunday, 3 August 2008 11:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I went on Youtube yesterday and watched the live clip where they play "their new song".
it was hideous. I hope it's not really going on the new album. sounded like St. Anger redux.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 3 August 2008 13:59 (fifteen years ago) link
oh yeah, what did you expect? master of puppets redux?
― stephen, Sunday, 3 August 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Trujillo looks like an action figure in that shot.
― chap, Sunday, 3 August 2008 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
It has to happen some time right? I mean, every ageing band goes through the phase at least once. That moment where they all sit down and decide to 'go back to basics'. Proper speed metal. Six minute songs. Acoustic guitars in the intro, heavy opening riff, launch into the first verse with another palm-muted stomper. Epic twin leads. Badass, larger than life lyrics about death, fuck your personal issues.
We know you've grown as a band as well as individually, you're not sixteen anymore, it's all fine we won't think anything worse of you.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 3 August 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
No, but that's never been what I wanted. Hell, they couldn't even pull it off competently if they wanted to now, with the way James sings.
But it feels to me like the St. Anger type stuff is not the music they wanted to make, but that they made it in order to sell their more gullible fans that they'd gone back to basics and are making 'harder' music again.
Load and Reload may both suck, but at least they sounded somewhat enthused about it.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 3 August 2008 20:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I think the enthusiasm you're looking for was mostly gone after Cliff died, to be honest.
― J0hn D., Monday, 4 August 2008 00:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I just want something that's listenable! Megadeth's recent output might be generic, boring, and not something I want to listen to more than once, but it's at least listenable! :)
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Monday, 4 August 2008 00:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I would buy instrumental versions of every Metallica album since Justice... if they were available.
The Apocalyptica covers Metallica for 4 cellos is very good, in my opinion. Check it out!
― res, Monday, 4 August 2008 01:07 (fifteen years ago) link
The band you love is dead! Stop trying to dig them up!
― Nate Carson, Monday, 4 August 2008 03:09 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.metallicaworld.co.uk/images/tattoos/metallica_back.jpg
― stephen, Monday, 4 August 2008 03:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I have. I don't plan on buying this monstrosity at all.
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Monday, 4 August 2008 03:21 (fifteen years ago) link
i bet that tattoo looked better before that dude got lovehandles
― res, Monday, 4 August 2008 16:28 (fifteen years ago) link
humanizing James Hetfield interview on NPR's Fresh Air:
http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=14023112&m=14023108
― res, Monday, 4 August 2008 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Crummy footage of "Cyanide" played tonight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rFjCR9NeI
Too garbled to make much of it, but there are some promising moments, like Lars stepping out of the lazy groove he's been doing for the past decade, and some welcome dual harmonies, nawobbum style.
― A. Begrand, Sunday, 10 August 2008 08:23 (fifteen years ago) link
x-post The reason Rubin wanted to work with Cash in the first place was to rescue a living legend from the dinner theater circuit. Mission accomplished. I do agree that had it stopped after "Unchained" (the rare sequel better than the original) there'd be less debate, but I just can't argue with the presence of more Cash rather than less.
As for Metallica, the best route would have been a reality series after the movie. Or a sitcom, a la "The Monkees." But too late for that, I guess.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 10 August 2008 13:05 (fifteen years ago) link
an animated series with Hetfield and company masquerading as costumed superheroes after nightfall....
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, 10 August 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
New song posted here:
http://www.metallica.com/index.asp?item=601119
It's pretty good!
― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 22 August 2008 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I think the new song's awful. A weak rehashing of the classic era with zero passion.
― chap, Saturday, 23 August 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
drums are mixed way too high
― i, grey, Saturday, 23 August 2008 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Song's not perfect, there's a little "One" rip-off that sticks out, but other than that I kind of like it.
― A. Begrand, Saturday, 23 August 2008 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
It's all right, but the vocals are terrible. This kind of can't be fixed; the only way to make Hetfield's singing sound good is to under-record it, and dude's been around long enough now to not stand for that.
― J0hn D., Saturday, 23 August 2008 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I wonder what song was in Lars' headphones when he recorded this one?
― Nate Carson, Saturday, 23 August 2008 20:54 (fifteen years ago) link
another new song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAT_Tt_EZM0
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 29 August 2008 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
damn this is kinda fuckin' hot!
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 29 August 2008 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
more bark, less "singing"!
thrashiest thing they've done since..jeez...blackened?
lyrics have some lo_Ol moments but hell it's a new metallica song.
hard to tell from shitty youtube but sounds like rubin records on fuckin' macbook with the cheap protools or something.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 29 August 2008 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Ok, that one's surprisingly unshit.
― chap, Friday, 29 August 2008 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
wow @ fake metallicas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX04ktKI9SY
― Jordan, Friday, 29 August 2008 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Maditory (sic) actually do a better 80s Metallica impression than 00s Metallica do from the sound of that.
― chap, Friday, 29 August 2008 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
anyone else think My Apocalypse sounds really Slayer-ish at times?
NYT write-up on it.
― rockapads, Sunday, 31 August 2008 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I would like a "My Apocolypse" ringtone.
― Eazy, Sunday, 31 August 2008 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
not half-bad. okay, maybe a quarter bad.
― latebloomer, Sunday, 31 August 2008 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
still.
wow @ fake metallicas
Hmm. Very good Metallica by the numbers, and not bad as a parody or homage, but certainly not as good as the stuff on the first 4 Metallica albums
― res, Sunday, 31 August 2008 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Um, there's something called "The Unforgiven III" on here.
― Lie Bot, Sunday, 31 August 2008 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
My Alolcalypse
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 31 August 2008 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Almost from the start progress equals integrity was an article of faith for the band. Each of its evolutions seemed to challenge hardcore metal’s cult values of speed and power and emotional guardedness.
fair or unfair?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 31 August 2008 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
the drums and the vocals are terrible. the guitar playing is awesome though, the beginning sounds like early 70's genesis.
― akm, Sunday, 31 August 2008 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Album version of "Cyanide" has now surfaced.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm4EADT8k5U
It's gooood. They just go nuts with the NWOBHM passages in the break, and they don't feel tacked on whatsoever.
― A. Begrand, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 05:53 (fifteen years ago) link
eww. just sounds like that song from the mission impossible soundtrack with a bit of "kill 'em all" plagiarism in the middle.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 07:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Listening to "Cyanide" right now. It sounds like...Prong. That opening riff, and the drumbeat, are pure Prove You Wrong-era Prong. I like it a lot.
― unperson, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 13:09 (fifteen years ago) link